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Lesson Summary:
Students will be able to locate original locations of Negro Leagues Baseball teams using latitude and longitude, calculate distances between locations using maps and/or Internet resources, and use critical thinking skills to compare and contrast travel over the past century.
Key Features of Powerful Teaching and Learning:
(National Council for the Social Studies. “A Vision of Powerful Teaching and Learning in the Social Studies: Building Social Understanding and Civic Efficacy.”
http://www.socialstudies.org/positions/powerful/)
Meaningful: Students will connect previous knowledge and experience, to think critically and creatively about social and technological changes in transportation over the past century.
Value-based: Students will gain an understanding of how changes in technology have impacted society during the last century.
Integrated: Students will use technology to gain knowledge of past and present conditions focusing on transportation within the United States.
Challenging: Students will use a variety of skills during the completion of this assignment: researching skills, mapping skills, and technology and critical thinking skills.
Active: Students will utilize a hands-on approach to better understand social changes within the United States.
Purpose/Rationale/Introduction:
Students will be able to locate original locations of Negro Leagues Baseball teams using latitude and longitude, calculate distances between locations using maps and/or Internet resources, and use critical thinking skills to compare and contrast travel over the past century.
Objectives:
1. Students will be able to locate original locations of NLB teams using latitude and longitude.
2. Students will be able to calculate distances between locations using maps and/or Internet resources. (i.e. Google maps, Yahoo maps, and Mapquest)
3. Students will use critical thinking skills to compare and contrast travel over the past century.
Materials/Primary Resources:
United States Atlas, Access to Internet (optional), Longitude & Latitude Handout, and Distance Table.
Procedures & Activities:
Using longitude and latitude clues, students will determine the location of the original Negro National League organized by Rube Foster. Once students have the locations of each city, they will then calculate the distance between each location using an Internet mapping site or Atlas. Students will use critical thinking skills to map out the shortest route in which to travel through all of the cities. Students will then discuss the differences between travels today vs. 1920. Students should include technological and social changes.
Conclusion:
The teacher should facilitate a discussion of social issues that Negro baseball players faced in 1920 through the civil rights movement.
Online Resources:
Online Maps
http://maps.yahoo.com/
http://maps.google.com/
http://www.mapquest.com/
Latitude and Longitude Tutorials
http://www.lakelandsd.com/tutorial/lesson1.html
http://www.cssd.ab.ca/tech/social/latitude/
History of the 1920’s
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/tech.html
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
http://www.nlbm.com/
A Look at Life in the Negro Leagues
http://coe.ksu.edu/nlbm/
History of Jim Crow
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm
Assessment:
Students will participate in a discussion comparing and contrasting the journey in 1920 and today. Students should include technological and social changes.